PUBLIC VOTE on SOCIAL INNOVATION HORIZON PRIZE now ON

Cast your vote now for the challenge you want to be the first ever Horizon Prize for Social Innovation!

Innovations are new or significantly improved goods, services, processes and methods; they are social if they are designed to benefit society rather than the individual. Very often social challenges cannot be met with traditional recipes and approaches.

The European Commission, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank Institute, plan to launch a € 2 Million Horizon prize on a social challenge chosen by the public, as part of Horizon 2020, the EU’s biggest ever research and innovation framework programme.

Horizon prizes are inducement prizes that offer a reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge. The aim is to engage communities to work towards a common goal, spur interest in a particular issue, attract new, dynamic innovators to an area, mobilise additional private investment for research and innovation, and stimulate novel, replicable solutions to the grand challenges, for the benefit of European citizens.

You can vote for one of the following five challenges:

Childhood obesity

Ageing population

Integration of immigrants in the labour market

Women entrepreneurship and women-led enterprises

Citizens for clean energy

The challenge with the most votes will then become the subject of a Horizon Prize.